CAIRO, May 17, 2018 - Minister of Transport Dr Hisham Arafat said Thursday that Prime Minister Sherif Ismail will attend the launch of bore holing from Ataba Metro station to Imbaba station scheduled for next Wednesday. The Ataba-Imbaba Metro stage will cost 930 million euros and is financed through a soft loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) In a press conference, Arafat said that Thursday's cabinet meeting discussed a report on the new measures taken by the Ministry of Transport to facilitate passenger access to tickets and subscriptions of the underground Metro, including the provision of 10 outlets at phone exchanges and five at post offices to make easy the process of selling tickets and issuing subscriptions. The Transport Ministry announced yesterday new metro ticket price deductions for collective subscriptions of staffers of companies, ministries and banks. Discounts will vary from 3 to 5 per cent with each subscription being exempted from the 5-pound fee of the application, the ministry said.